Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• δαρχμά ‎(darkhmá)
• δαρχνά ‎(darkhná)
• δαρχμή ‎(darkhmḗ)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðraxmí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðraxmí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðɾaxmí/

Noun

δραχμή • ‎(drakhmḗ) f ‎(genitive δραχμῆς); first declension

1. drachma
2. drachm

Inflection

Descendants

• → Bactrian: δραχμο ‎(draxmo), δδραχμο ‎(ddraxmo)
• → Khotanese: [script needed] ‎(draṃmaa-)
• → Latin: drachma, dragma
  • → English: drachma, drachm, dram
• → Middle Persian: 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 ‎(drahm)
  • Manichaean Middle Persian: drhm ‎(drahm)
  • Persian: درم ‎(deram)
    • → Kurdish: dirav
    • → Ottoman Turkish: درم ‎(derem)
  • → Arabic: درهم ‎(dirham)
    • → English dirham
    • → Persian: درهم ‎(derham)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: درهم ‎(dirhem)
        • Turkish dirhem
        • → Serbo-Croatian: dìrhem / дѝрхем
  • → Old Armenian: դրամ ‎(dram)
    • Armenian: դրամ ‎(dram)
    • → Georgian: დრამა ‎(drama)
• → Russian: дра́хма ‎(dráxma)
• → Sanskrit: द्रम्म ‎(drámma)
• → Sogdian: δrγmh ‎(δraxm(a))

References

• δραχμή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δραχμή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δραχμή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «δραχμή» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1406”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • coin idem, page 142.
  • pound idem, page 630.
  • shilling idem, page 766.

Greek

Noun

δραχμή • ‎(drachmí) f ‎(plural δραχμές)

1. drachma (former Greek currency)
2. (obsolete) drachma (an ancient unit of weight)

Declension

Coordinate terms

• λεπτό m ‎(leptó, “cent”)

External links

• δραχμή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el